An old customer left me for another company who offered them some big package. Now they've come back. Because they were sold an expensive server that's horribly slow for their needs. Slower than what they were limping on before. Now I need to fix it.
They have an HPE Proliant ML350 Gen10 server. It's used for databases and needs lots of high read IOPS. The files aren't huge. But have millions of entries. So, a database that's maybe a few hundred MB in size takes minutes to load on client computers. When multiple employees are loading databases. Everything grinds to a halt. Since it's using seven hard drives in RAID 6 instead of an NVMe SSD.
I'm trying to find out if there's any issue installing 2x NVMe PCIe x8 RAID card. With these servers or if there's some issue with their BIOS which will cause problems. I'll be running 2x2TB NVMe in RAID 1. Like I said they don't have a ton of storage needs. They just need high IOPS. Any recommendations for cards?
The server itself seems capable enough. I don't want to see them wasting anymore money than necessary to get the storage speed issue fixed. Since they are thinking of just dumping the server. So, I'm making sure this upgrade can be easily transported to another computer.
They have an HPE Proliant ML350 Gen10 server. It's used for databases and needs lots of high read IOPS. The files aren't huge. But have millions of entries. So, a database that's maybe a few hundred MB in size takes minutes to load on client computers. When multiple employees are loading databases. Everything grinds to a halt. Since it's using seven hard drives in RAID 6 instead of an NVMe SSD.
I'm trying to find out if there's any issue installing 2x NVMe PCIe x8 RAID card. With these servers or if there's some issue with their BIOS which will cause problems. I'll be running 2x2TB NVMe in RAID 1. Like I said they don't have a ton of storage needs. They just need high IOPS. Any recommendations for cards?
The server itself seems capable enough. I don't want to see them wasting anymore money than necessary to get the storage speed issue fixed. Since they are thinking of just dumping the server. So, I'm making sure this upgrade can be easily transported to another computer.